Word: inventing
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...novels have been published in China, but not without some mysterious changes. The city of Shanghai, for instance, is referred to as "H," which manages to sound even more Kafkaesque than anything Qiu could invent. But writing crime novels has allowed him remarkable freedom to limn China's shifting moral standards. "In the past, Chinese people believed in Confucianism," Qiu says. "That's basically an ethical system: what you should do and what you should not do. Then people believed in Mao and communism. In a way, that was also about what you should and should...
...users can share good deeds, with the money he earns from three jobs. This spring, a new undergraduate business competition may provide him and other innovators on campus with some much-needed cash. Yesterday marked the official launch of “I^3,” the Imagine Invent Impact Harvard College Innovation Challenge. The competition will award $80,000 in cash grants and provide up to $40,000 in services for students to pursue innovative ventures. Michael Segal ’08, co-president of the Harvard College Entrepreneurship Forum, said about 70 people have signed...
VoiceObjects' claim to fame is not that it has reinvented voice-recognition applications but that the company has found a way to make voice applications easy to construct and easy to use. "We're like Henry Ford," says Land. "Ford didn't invent the automobile. He developed the assembly line, and that made the automobile affordable and accessible to a mass market...
...Harvard feels much freer to invent. There’s a sense of spontaneity,” said Lord Richard T. Wilson, the master of Emmanuel College in Cambridge. That school, John Harvard’s student home, was founded in 1584. His colleagues from Oxford (founded in the 11th century) and Cambridge (founded in the 13th century) were among the crowd...
...someone who likes to invent what the future of science and technology looks like," Allen says. Grandiose maybe, except that he and a Seattle school pal did that once before. The ATA could grow to 350 dishes, but it may not have to. If it gets us asking questions that go beyond the usual noise of the news, it has done its job even before its switch is thrown...